John Wallace
> I'd like to search a comment field for a specific word, such as can
be done
> with Excel's "Search(find_text,within_text,[start_num])" function.
I'd like
> to do it interactively, rather than as a program (it looks like a
program
> using -tokenize- would be one approach), but the -match- and -word-
string
> functions don't appear to be what I'm looking for. I have a list of
1000
> records, all with a "comment" field that may or may not contain a
word I
> want, buried within an otherwise random string of characters. What
I'd like
> is a command that I could type in thus:
> .browse if {command}("wafer",var_comment) !=.
> Does such a command exist? It seems like it would be a useful tool
for
> browsing non-standard text fields...
Indeed. Or rather, -index()-.
. browse if index(var_comment, "wafer")
For more, see the relevant help or
Stata Journal 2(4), 411-427 (2002), esp. Section 2.2.
Nick
[email protected]
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